A descending spiral
Subtitle: exposing the death penalty in 12 essays
By: Marc Bookman
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781620976593
Subjects: Capital punishment; Law and legislation
Description: "Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty abolitionists"--
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: 1 Executed Against the Judgment of Twelve Jurors; title: 2 How Crazy Is Too Crazy to Be Executed?; title: 3 Racist and Proud (and a Judge); title: 4 Sex-Shamed to Death; title: 5 The Lawyer Who Drank His Client to Death; title: 6 When a Kid Kills His Longtime Abuser, Who's the Victim?; title: 7 The Confessions of Innocent Men; title: 8 A Descending Spiral; title: 9 Trials and Errors; title: 10 Stranger in a Strange Land; title: 11 The N-Word in the Jury Box; title: 12 Smoke; title: Afterword; title: Acknowledgments